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A few things have changed over the summer. I have reduced the number of domains I have been using and migrated everything to fusco.ca where I will be blogging from now on.

In about 12 hours I will be getting up to get ready for another school year. I am really looking forward to working with students to learn more about how they learn and the new skills they will need to be successful in the future.

I think it is funny how I still get the anxiousness of going back to school after all these year. I can’t hardly wait! It is going to be another great year.

In the upcoming months, check back here for more information about BIT17 and my pursuits to help K-8 teachers integrate coding into their curriculum.

I have always wished I could print things from anywhere. Last week my wish came true. I received an email from buyapi.ca that Raspberry Pi Zero W’s were back in stock. This little $14 computer was going to be the heart of my remote printing solution.

Here are the steps I followed to set up a Google Cloud Printer using a Raspberry Pi Zero W.

My Setup:

Raspberry Pi Zero W

32GB Class 10 SD card

Raspbian Jessie with PIXEL (full install)

SSH and VNC turned on in Pi Settings

raspberry icon top left > preferences > raspberry pi configuration

Assigned IP address to Pi in router

Connected to home network via WiFi

Change default pi password in Pi settings (it will be online so it is a good idea to change this)

raspberry icon top left > preferences > raspberry pi configuration

Steps:

Update the Pi

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install printer software

sudo apt-get install cups cups-client "foomatic-db"

Add user ‘pi’ to printer users

sudo usermod -a -G lpadmin pi

Configure to print remotely

sudo nano /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

Change config to the following

# Only listen for connections from the local machine
# Listen localhost:631
Port 631

I was walking through the lobby of the hotel and heard my name being called. It was Stephen and several of his colleagues from Northern Ontario. We have been Twitter friends for some time and this was our first chance to chat face-to-face. I also thought it was a good time to interview Stephen and have him share some of the great things going on in Northern Ontario.